Beware Sudden Oak Death.editor: I am on your email listserve. I live in Vermont and have been a conservationist for more than 40 years. About three years ago, the Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy Nature Conservancy, nonprofit organization established in 1951 to preserve or aid in the preservation of natural environments. It protects wilderness areas in the United States and Canada and is affiliated with similar groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. , of which I am a member and an annuitant Annuitant 1. A person who receives the benefits of an annuity or pension. 2. The person upon whom a life-insurance contract is based. Notes: 1. In other words, the annuitant is the beneficiary of an annuity or pension. 2. , planned a fundraiser to be held at a fancy yuppie garden center. I am an experienced gardener. I know this garden center sells invasive non-native species for outdoor planting, and some cacti I purchased there as houseplants turned out to be infested in·fest tr.v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests 1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: with some virulent mealybugs that were very hard to exterminate. At about this time, I began seeing articles on Sudden Oak Death sudden oak death: see diseases of plants; water mold. on various conservation listserves. After doing some research into how it seems to be transmitted (http://www. woodland-trust. org.uk/oakdeath.htm) and what other plants it infests, I argued to have VT TNC (hardware) TNC - A threaded version of a BNC. move its fundraiser to a less environmentally lethal venue. I didn't succeed in my immediate objective, but I think the evidence I turned up is persuasive enough that in the future no more TNC events will be planned for commercial nurseries or garden centers. Carol Wagner, Williston VT |
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